Tue 10 May 2022: The Kashmir Files, a controversial film on the exodus of Hindus from the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s, has been banned by Singapore, which has cited concerns over its “potential to cause enmity between different communities”. The film has been assessed to be “beyond” Singapore’s film classification guidelines, news agency PTI […]
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Thu 02 December 2021: Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – The United Nations has expressed concern over the arrest of a prominent Kashmiri rights activist under the stringent “anti-terror” law by the Indian authorities and has called for his release. “We are deeply concerned at the arrest of Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez under Indian counter-terrorism legislation, […]
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Fri 10 September 2021: The Paris Court of Appeals affirmed a four-year prison term for Syria’s Bashar al-uncle Assad’s for “misappropriating public funds and money laundering” on Thursday. Rifaat al-Assad, 84, was condemned last year by the Paris Criminal Court for offences committed between 1996 and 2016. He did not attend the hearing. The […]
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Thu 02 September 2021: Amid restrictions on people’s movement and internet and cellular services, Indian police took the body of Kashmir’s top leader Syed Ali Geelani and buried him under its custody in the capital Srinagar early on Thursday. A close relative of Geelani, asking to remain anonymous, told Anadolu Agency over the phone from […]
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Fri 06 August 2021: India on Thursday rejected remarks by the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the occasion of the second anniversary of the annexation of Kashmir. On Aug. 5, 2019, India annulled the key provisions of Article 370 and abrogated Article 35 (A) of its constitution, which had guaranteed […]
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Thu 05 August 2021: In the study led by King’s College London, researchers found that children with symptoms of COVID-19 typically started to recover after six days, with only 4.4% of these children still experiencing symptoms after four weeks. The findings have been published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal. Researchers analysed data reported by parents and carers […]
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Tue 13 July 2021: After not being allowed to visit the martyr’s graveyard at Naqashbandh Sahab Srinagar to pay tribute to 13 July 1931 martyrs at the graveyard, the top political parties including National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party organized closed door functions and paid homage to the martyrs. PDP President and former Jammu and […]
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Fri 19 February 2021: UN human rights experts said Thursday that India’s decision to end Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomy and enact new laws could curtail the previous level of political participation of Muslims and other minorities in the country. Such new laws could discriminate against Indian minorities in essential matters, including employment and land ownership, […]
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Sat 06 February 2021: High speed 4G internet services are being restored across Jammu and Kashmir, a senior government official said on Friday, more than 18 months after they were snapped to prevent a backlash against the centre’s move to revoke the former state’s special status. “4G mobile internet services being restored in entire J&K,” […]
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Sat 16 January 2021: SRINAGAR —Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have dropped 48 newspapers from a panel that makes periodicals eligible to run government advertisements, officials said on Saturday. While 10 dailies have been struck off the panel completely, eight others were suspended temporarily in Kashmir, Haris Handoo, joint director of information, told Anadolu Agency. […]
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